What is It?

What is it that we are seeking? What is it that we are longing, searching, why is there this everlasting thisrst? J. Krishnamurti asked at the beinning of one of his final lectures at Saanen, Switzerland this question to his students.What is it that we are hungering over? He went on rambling till the end of his 'ceramah' or talk, he reached in to tear away the very fabric of my mind leaving me stranded in a moment of limbo...this is meditation he said, this 'observation or as the Buddhist would call it 'bare attention' without the mind making any form of existence, where the mind is silenced, in this silence of the mind is the original, the seed the formless, the inconspicuous, the omnipresent, omni-being state of consciousness what the Japanese would call having a Satori state of mind or what the Hindu would look at it as Moksha, or the Muslim would relate to being in Kushyuk or what the Christians would equivocate it as having a Grace. Whatever we may call it it is still that space of being in emptiness and emptiness in being. I, Am No More was the last words uttered by the Buddha before he stepped into the state of being in Pari Nirvana or the the Great Liberation.
When a student asked the Zen master to set his mind free, the master asked him to show the one holding it in captivity. Off course in the old Zen tradition the student was knocked out of his senses and had an awakening experience, a Satori, a Lightning Flash, a moment of silence, (of the mind). It is nothing special! It may last just in the blink of the eye and poof it is no more! But it was there and you were in it, being it, it was you. Now you are who you think you are and you try to recapture that feeling that moment, you try to hold to its memory for as long as you can and you start your walk down from the 'Peak of Mystic Mountain' dragging your feet.
You have to be a light to yourself, not the light of Buddha, or the light of Christ or that whatever but be the light unto yourself. Jedu Krishnamurti emphasized throughout his talks Take none as authority unto yourself, none above and none below said the Buddha as soo as he left his mother's body and after taking His first seven steps.  The Buddha was said to have stod and pointed one hand up towards the heavens while the other towards the earth , He made this universal proclamation and this in Buddhism is called taking your Dharma Stand or Position. With this stance the Buddha set forth to heal the humanity of his time; He became a truth seeker, he renounced the life that he was conditioned into by his father a great King of his time; He became a mendicant monk and later became a World and Time Honored One.

"Having no way as Way, Having no limitation as Limitation"
Bruce Lee
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